'7-headed monster? You're a nut' 'No, YOU'RE the nut'

The whole chapter in Job 41 describes the devil and it describes him as guess what? A sea monster. Leviathan by name.

[1] Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

In other words, “Can you go fishing and catch this guy and bring him out of the water?” explains Richard Jordan.

“Or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?” God’s saying, “Are you going to go control this guy? Forget it.”

Isaiah 27 is how you know that Leviathan is Satan. You can’t go to the commentaries and find this out, by the way. For some strange reason the commentaries cover up Job 41. They say, “Leviathan, that’s really a whale or maybe a whirlpool or something like that.”

They know it’s a monster, but Leviathan is a seven-headed dragon. They say, “Well, we certainly know it’s nothing like that. Archeologists have never found a seven-headed dragon, and you couldn’t have such a thing because which one of the heads would control his feet? Got too many brains. How are they going to work together? So, it can’t really be that; it’s got to be something else.”

Well, you see, the Bible sets up its own system of terms and then definitions of the terms that tells you how to study it. Leviathan is not a seven-headed dragon like you think of some big lizard running around.

This is in the spiritual realm. This is a degenerated form of Lucifer, the covering cherubim. This is a degenerated form to which Satan has devolved because of sin.

We read in Revelation 12 that he’s the great red dragon. He’s the seven-headed monster in the sea out there in the water that’s above the universe. That’s where he’s at. When I say that, that blows your mind. I’m talking about Genesis 1.

I know what people say. “Agh, you’re a bunch of nuts.” That’s not it at all. It just means we settled all those issues and we’re spending our time studying, and the more you study the more you kind of get over here, and you get out further, and then a little further, and pretty soon the establishment out there looks at you and says, “Well, you’re a nut.”

But you know what that means? That means when you’re out way over there and you look back at them, you know what you think they are? They’re nuts too.

Someone says to a guy, “You’re a nut,” and he says, “That’s all right, I’m screwed onto the right bolt.”

In a passage on the Second Coming of Christ, Isaiah 27:1-6, the first verse says, [1] In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Tell me something, who’s the piercing serpent and the dragon? That’s Revelation 12; that’s Satan. Who’s Leviathan? He’s the piercing serpent; he’s the dragon that’s in the sea. He’s that sea monster out there.

John sees the beast rise up out of the sea. Revelation 13 tells us Satan gives him his seat. It’s Satan who gives him his great power and authority and puts the words in his mouth to speak.

That beast, when he comes, he comes as the ultimate embodiment and manifestation of the satanic policy of evil.

The beast that he sees come out of the sea, look at what he is in Revelation 13: [1] And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
[2] And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

He comes riding on the authority of Satan, so he’s seen as one coming up out of the sea. Satan raises him up and gives him his seat and power and great authority.

You notice he’s a leopard, a bear, a lion. You ever seen any pictures of this guy? Clarence Larkin has a big old book called “Dispensational Truth” with charts and pictures. He has a book on Revelation and one on Daniel. They’re the best books on Revelation, Daniel and prophecy you’ll ever buy. If you buy these three books (not everything in it was right, but it was good for his day with a publication date of 1920), you’ll never need to buy any other books on those topics.

His books are the granddaddy of all and all the great prophecy preachers (Taylor, Ward, Howard, those guys) they just rehash Larkin, unfortunately. His books are a good place to start, but we’ve learned a lot since then. But I’m glad I got my start in those books and once you learn to rightly divide the Word and understand the distinctive ministry of Paul, the mystery truth, you can begin to adjust some of the things he misses.

Larkin has all these great pictures and he draws a leopard with the mouth of a lion and the feet like a bear. Boy, it’s a funny-looking dude. You can imagine what it would look like.

He draws this composite beast. In Job 40 you’ve got the same guy. Job 40:

[15] Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
[16] Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
[17] He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
[18] His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
[19] He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
[20] Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
[21] He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
[22] The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
[23] Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
[24] He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.

Here’s another creature that the scholars don’t seem to be able to understand. The word “behemoth,” if you run to the Hebrew, it says it means an elephant.

The word “behemoth” means a composite beast. It’s a beast made up of a bunch of different beasts. Didn’t you just read about one of them in Revelation 13:2?

What you’re reading in Job 40 is a description of the Antichrist and some of the things the Antichrist is going to do, and then after that you read a description of Satan, who empowers the Antichrist.

If you look at verse 19, if you’re going to stand against the Antichrist in that tribulation period—if those Jews are going to beat the Antichrist, you know how they’re going to beat him?

Nobody in their human ability, in human wisdom, in physical might and prowess can whip the guy. That’s what He’s saying to Job—you can’t stand against him in your own might, but the one who made Job can make his sword approach to him. What’s that? The Book. Do you understand why Satan doesn’t like the Book? It’s the only thing that can get in there and get him.